Winding-machine for balls or cops.



No. 730,635. 7 PATENTED-JUNE 9, 1903.

' J- GOOD.

WINDING MACHINE FOR BALLS 0B. COPS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV; 26, 1902.

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No. 730,635. PATENTED JUNE 9, 190a.

J. GOOD. WINDING MACHINE FOB BALLS 0R OOPS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 1902. I

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v I I O Y I; I I I W M y Y my UNITED STATES Patented June 9, 1909:;

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GOOD, OF FAR ROOKAWAY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, PAT- RICK F.OHARE, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK, AND JOHN M, REINER,

OF RADNOR, PENNSYLVANIA.

WINDING-MACHINE FOR. BA LS OR ooPs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,635, dated June 9,1903.

Application filed November 25, 1902 Serial No. 132,738. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN. GOOD, a citizen'of the United States, and aresident of Far Rockaway, in the county of Queens and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Improvement in finding-Machines for Ballsor Oops, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is the production of a ball or cop oftwine, cord, or thread consisting of a substantially cylindrical bodydescribed and claimed, the principal elements of which are two spindlesarranged obliquely to each other in fixed bearings. One of said spindlesupon which the ball or cop, hereinafter termed the ball, is wound hasgiven to it a rotary motion for producing the winding of the body of theball and assisting the winding of its covering. The other of saidspindles carries a flier-arm which constitutes a director for the twine,cord, or thread to be wound, and it has given to it by turns anoscillating movement and a rotary motion, the said oscillating movementbeing for the purpose of producing the traverse of the twine, cord, orthread back and forth lengthwise of the body in regular helical coursesand the said rotary motion being to direct the winding of the coveringacross the ends of the body.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 represents a perspective View of one of the balls or cops to beproduced by the invention; Fig. 2, an axial section of the same; Fig. 3,a side view of a portion of the body of the same; Fig. 4, a plan of amachine embodyin g the invention; Fig. 5, an end elevation of saidmachine; Fig. 5*, a detail view,which will be hereinafter explained;Fig. 6, a side elevation of the machine; Figs. 7 and S, a plan andtransverse sectional View, respectively, of certain details of themachine to be hereinafter described.

9 is the framing of the machine, on the-upper part of which are thestationary journal-boxes 10 for the spindle 11, hereinafter termed thewindingspindle, and the stationary journal-box 12 for the spindle 13,hereinafter termed the flier-spindle. The windingspindle 11, upon whichthe twine, cord, or thread is wound to form the ball, is furnished withtwo movable heads 14 14*, which when fastened to the said spindle by theset-screws 15, provided for the purpose, constitute, with the portion ofthe spindle between them, the equivalent of a spool or bobbin. The saidwinding-spindle is furnished, as shown in Figs. 4, (3, '7, with abelt-pulley 16 and with a wormgear 17, both of which are fitted to turnthereon, and it is also furnished between said pulley and worm-gear witha clutch 18, which is fitted to turn with it, but to slide lengthwiseupon it into engagement With either said belt-pulley or worm-gear or toan intermediate position out of engagement with both.

The flier-spindle 13 is hollow and carries a disk or head 19, on whichis an arm 20-, said spindle 13, head 19, and arm 20 constituting what isknown in spinning and winding machinery as a f flier. This flier isarranged at one side of the winding-spindle 11, with the axis of itsspindle 13 oblique to but in or about in the same horizontal plane withthe axis of the winding-spindle and in such position relatively to thelength of the windingspindle that the axis of said spindle 13 wouldintersect the axis of the winding-spindle at a point about midway ofthat part of the latter included between the heads 14 14* when the saidheads are fastened thereon, as shown in Fig. 4. The distance of theflier-spindle from the winding-spindle is such that the flier-head 19,which is on that end of the flierspindle nearest the winding-spindle,will rotate clear of the heads 14 14* of the windingspindle. Thedistance of the fiiei arm 20 from the axis of its spindle 13 is suchthat said arm 20 in its revolution may pass around and outside of thespace included between the said heads 14 14*, and the obliquity of -tothe disk 19.

the flier-spindle 13 to the winding-spindle is such that twine, cord, orthread 70, hereinafter referred to simply as twine, passing, as shown inFig. 5, through the flier-spindle to its arm and out from said arm to acylindrical body of twine 71, Figs. 2 and 3, wound on that part of thewinding-spindle included between the heads 14 14*, may when said headsare removed be carried and wound along and around the said body andacross the ends thereof, passing over one end of said body on one sideof the winding-spindle and over the other end of said body on theopposite side of said spindle and forming a covering 72 to said body, asshown in Fig. 1. The flier-arm has in or on its end a guide of anysuitable kind to direct the twine to the winding-spindle. This guide isrepresented as consisting of two small sheaves 22 33, to which the twineor thread 70, passing through the flier-spindle, is directed overanother small sheave 24, arranged on the flier-arm nearer The flier-armnot only serves by the revolution of its spindle to produce the windingalong and over the ends of the cylindrical body as above described, butserves by an oscillating movement of its spindle produced, ashereinafter described, by a traverse-screw 25, to direct the twine orthread in regular helical coils in the winding of the cylindrical body,as represented in Fig. 3.

The traverse-screw 25 is arranged parallel I with the winding-spindle 11on the opposite side thereof to the flier-spindle in stationary bearings26 on the framing 9. It is, like the cross threaded traverse screw,commonly used in spinning-machines of the jenny type and furnished witha switch-nut 27, which by the rotation of the screw is caused to runback To the nut 27 there is and forth thereon. rigidly attached a forkedor slotted lever 28, adapted to receive in its fork or slot a pin orprojection 29, Fig. 5, on the flier-arm. By the movement of the nut backand forth on the traverse-screw the lever 28 is caused to give thenecessary traverse motion to the flierarm, said motion being accompaniedby an oscillating movement of its spindle 13, which is permitted byreason of the disengagement of the two bevel gears 30 and 31, Fig. 5,through which the rotary motion of thesaid spindle is produced forwinding the covering 72 along and across the ends of the body 71. Thetraverse-lever'28 is furnished at its outer end with a counterbalance 32of suificient weight to hold its forked or slotted end up intoengagement with the flierarm during the winding of the body; but beforeplacing the gear 30 into engagement with its driving-gear 31 for windingthe covering the said lever has to be disengaged from the flier-arm. Thecounterbalance 32 then throws the lever 28 to the position shown indotted outline in Fig. 5.

The winding-spindle, flier-spindle, and traverse-screw are allrepresented as deriving their rotary motion from a common drivingshaft33, which is arranged in bearings 34 in the lower part of the framingand provided with fast and loose pulleys 66 67. The pulley 16 on theWinding-spindle for driving it at a quick speed for the winding of thebody 71 receives motion through a belt 16* from a pulley 35 on saiddriving-shaft. The wormgear 17 on the said spindle for driving it at amuch slower speedfor winding the covering 72 derives motion from abevel-gear 36 on said driving-shaft through an upright shaft 37, runningin bracket-bearings 38 on the framing 9, said shaft 37 having upon itslower end a bevel-gear 39, gearing with said bevelgear 36, and having onits upper end an endless screw 40, (see Figs. 4 and 5*,) gearing withthe worm-gear 17. The flier-shaft derives motion through a horizontalshaft 40*, running in a fixed bearing 41 on the framing 9, and anupright shaft 42, running in bearings in brackets 46 47 on the framing9, said shaft 40* having on it two bevel-gears 43 43*, one gearing witha bevel-gear 44 on the driving-shaft 33 and the other witha bevel-gear45 on the upright shaft 42, on the upper end of which is the gear 31,hereinbefore mentioned. The traverse-screw receives its motion through abelt 48, running on a pulley 49 shaft 42 outward far enough to bring thebevel-gear 31 into gear with the bevel-gear 30.

For the purpose of moving the clutch 18 into gear either with the pulley16 or with the worm-gear 17 there is provided a handlever 53 54 55,working on a fixed fulcrum 56 in a bracket 57 on the framing 9. Thislever is forked, as shown in Fig. 8. The upper prong 54 of the forkengages with the clutch 18, and the lower prong has connected with it arod 58, which is slotted, as shown at 59 in Fig. 7, to receive a pin 60,which projects upward from one arm of an elbow-lever 61, which works ona fixed fulcrum 62 on abrac'ket 63 on the framing 9, the other arm ofthe said elbow-lever being connected by a rod 64 with the shaft 42. Whenthe hand-lever is moving to the position shown in Fig. 7 to bring theclutch 18 into engagement with the pulley 16 on the winding-spindle todrive the latter at the higher speed for winding the body 71 of theball, the inner end of the slot 59 of the rod 58 acts against the pin ofthe elbow-lever 61 to pull the shaft 41 ina direction to bring thebevel-gear out of gear from the bevel-gear 3O on'the flier-spindle; butwhen the hand-lever is moved to the position to bring the clutch intoengagement with the worm-gear 17 for driving the winding-spindle at theslower speed for winding on the covering 7 2 of the ball the slot 59 isbrought to such a position as to leave the spring 52 free to push andhold the shaft a1 to a position in which the bevel-gear 31 is in gearwith the bevel-gear 30 for giving rotary motion to the flier-spindle 13.

The construction and operations of the several parts of the machinehaving been fully described, it will now only be necessary to describebriefly the order of their operations for making a ball or cop. Thetwine to be wound may be brought from any suitable holderfor example, abobbin 011 which it has been spun or otherwise wound in itsmanufacture-and its end is introduced to the hollow flier-spindle 13through the rear or outer end thereof and passed'through said spindle tothe flier-arm 20 and through the guide at the outer end of said arm tothe windingspindle, to which it ismade fast between the heads 14 14*,which are then fastened upon the latter. WVhile this preparation forwinding is going on the main driving-belt (not shown) is on the loosepulley 67 and the handlever 53 is fastened to the framing by thespring-stop 65, proyided for the purpose, in a position in which theclutch 18 on the winding-spindle is out of gear both from the pulley 16and the worm-gear 17, and the said lever then holds the rod 58 in aposition in which the pin of the elbow-lever 61 is free from both endsof the slot 59 in said rod, and the spring 52, applied to the upperbearing 51 of said shat t, keeps the gear 81 in engagementwith the gear30; but when the preparation for winding has been made as abovedescribed the traverse-lever 28 is placed in engagement with theflier-arm 20 and the hand-lever 53 is brought to the position shown inFigs. 4 and 7 to bring the clutch 18 into engagement with the pulley 16and bring the latter into engagementwith the winding-spindle. The rod 58then acts, as shown in Fig. 7, on the elbow-lever 61, which by itsaction through the rod 6 1 on the upright shaft 42 takes the bevel-gear31 out of engagement with the bevel-gear 30 on the flier-spindle. Thetraverse-lever 28 is then placed by hand in engagement with the pin onthe flier-arm, and on the driving-belt being thrown onto the fast pulley66 of the drivingshaft the winding-spindle is caused to rotate at thefast speed for winding the body 71 of the ball, and the traverse-screwat the same time receives rotary motion through the belt 48. As thewinding proceeds the traverse of the twine in regular helical courses ofthe body is produced through the oscillating or reciprocating movementof the fiier produced by the movement of the traverse-screw and thetraverse-lever 28. This win-din g proceeds until the body is ofsufiicient size, when the machine is stopped by shifting the drivingbeltto the loose pulley 67. The head 1 10f the winding-spindle is then movedby hand on said spindle far enough from the adjacent end of the woundbody to permit the passage of the flier-arm around and across said end,and the head 141*is entirely removed from said spindle. To proceed,then, with the winding across and over the ends of the body, thetraverse-lever 28 is disengaged from the flierarm and thrown back to thedotted position shown in Fig.' 5, and the hand-lever 53 is shifted tothe position to bring the clutch 18 out of engagement from the pulley 16and into engagement with the worm-gear 17 for driving thewinding-spindle at the slower speed. By this movement of the hand-leverthe inner end of the slot 59 in the rod 58 is caused to so act on thepin 60 of the elbow-lever 61 that around and along and over the ends ofthe body to form its covering 7 2 is produced by the simultaneous slowrevolution of the winding-spindle and the more rapid revolution of theflier. IVhen the winding of the covering is completed, the machine isagain stopped by shifting the driving-belt to the loose pulley 67, andthe hand-lever 53 is then brought to its central position firstdescribed, in which the clutch 18 is disengaged from both the pulley 16and the worm-gear 17. The completed ball is then drawnoff from thewinding-spindle, which is made sufficiently taper to allow this to bedone easily, andon the replacement of the heads'let 14* themachine is incondition to prepare for and proceed with the winding of a new ball.

WVhat I claim as my invention is- 1. In a winding-machine, thecombination of a rotary winding-spindle, arotaryfiierhaving its axisoblique to said spindle and comprising a guide for directing thread ortwine to said spindle, and stationary bearings for said spindle andflier.

2. In a winding-machine, the combination of a rotary winding-spindle andfixedbear ings therefor, a rotary flier and fixed bearings thereforinwhich itsaxis is oblique to and approximatelyin the same plane with theaxis of said spindle, and heads applied to said windingspindle forconfining the wound thread or twine lengthwise of said spindle andremovable on or from said spindle.

- 3. In a Winding-machine, the combination of a rotary winding-spindle,a secondspindle having its axis in fixed oblique relation to saidwinding-spindle, a guide for twine, cord, or

thread carried by said second spindle at a distance from its axis andmeans for giving said second spindle an oscillating movement.

4. In a winding-machine, the combination 4 tary motion by turns, andmeans for giving the flier a rotary and an oscillating motion by turns.

5. In a Winding-machine, the combination of a rotary winding-spindle anda flier having their axes oblique to each other, stationary bearings forsaid spindle and flier, and means for giving said flier an oscillatingmovement during one stage of the winding and a rotary movement during alater stage of the winding.

6. In a winding-machine, the combination of a rotary winding-spindle, aflier having its axis oblique to the axis of said spindle, bearings forsaid spindle and flier, means for giving simultaneously a faster rotarymotion to the spindle and an oscillating motion to the flier, and meansfor giving simultaneously a slower rotary motion to the spindle and arotary motion to the flier.

7. In a'winding-machine, the combination of a rotary winding-spindle, aflier having its axis oblique to the axis of said spindle, bearings forsaid spindle and flier, a traverse-screw and a switch-nut thereon, meansfor engaging said flier with said nut and disengaging it therefrom toproduce an oscillating movement or permit a rotary movement of saidflier.

8. The combination with a rotary Windingspindle and a flier having theiraxes in the oblique relation described, and means for rotating theflier, of a traverse-screw and a traverse-nut thereon, a lever carriedby said nut, means for engaging said lever with the flier for producingan oscillating movement of the latter and means for disengaging saidmeans for rotation from the flier when said lever is engaged.

9. The combination with a rotary winding spindle and a flier havingtheir axes in the oblique relation described, of means for producing arotary motion of the flier and means for producing its oscillatingmovement, and a lever having connections with both of said means forsimultaneously placing either of said means out of operative relationwith the flier while the other of said means is in operative relationtherewith.

10. The combination with a rotary windingspindle and a flier havingtheir axes in the oblique relation described, of means for driving saidspindle at a higher speed, means for driving said spindle at a lowerspeed, means for rotating the flier, means for oscillating the flier, aclutch on said spindle for engaging with it either of said means fordriving it, and connections between said clutch and said means forrotating and oscillating the flier for producing either the fasterdriving of the spindle and the oscillation of the flier or the slowerdriving of the spindle and the rotation of the flier.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two Witnesses, this 22d day of Novem ber, 1902.

JOHN coon.

WVitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, LIDA M. EGBERT.

